Gerta S. Freeman Collection
Abstract
The collection contains Questionnaire I + II of the Austrian Heritage Collection at the Leo Baeck Institute. Also included are photocopies of various documents pertaining to Gerta Spiegel Freeman and her family in Vienna, Austria, such as education certificates, emigration documents, photographs, and others. Typescripts include Gerta Freeman’s autobiographical manuscript after her arrival in the United States in May 1938, and the transcript of an interview with her brother Harry Spiegel.
Dates
- Creation: 1915-1999
Creator
- Freeman, Gerta S., 1915- (Person)
Language of Materials
This collection is in German and English.
Access Information
Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.
Use Restrictions
There may be some restrictions on the use of the collection. For more information, contact:
Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
email: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org
Biographical Note
Gerta Freeman née Spiegel was born 1915 in Vienna, Austria. 1921 to 1926 she attended elementary school in the Ninth District, then moving on to "Reform Realgymnasium" in the Eighth District. She became an English Teacher in 1934/35. During her studies she was a member of the social democratic youth movement, particularly the socialist group "Rote Falken". Her brothers were politically active in the socialist organization ’Republikanischer Schutzbund’. Gerta left Vienna in April of 1938 for Switzerland and France (Paris). In May 1938 she took the ship "Britannic" from Le Havre to the USA, where she worked as a sales manager.
Extent
2 Folders
Other Finding Aid
Inventory in file
Bibliography
See also the AHC interview with Gerta Freeman, AHC 1243.
A videotape documenting Harry Spiegel’s activities in the Spanish Civil War and the Resistance in France during Nazi-German occupation has been removed to the LBI AV Collection.
General
Other identifiers include: MF 708.
Subject
- Freeman, Gerta S., 1915- (Person)
- Kreisky, Bruno (Person)
- Spiegel, Harry (Person)
- Title
- Guide to the Gerta S. Freeman Collection, 1915-1999 AR 11035
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- © 2009
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is in English.
Revision Statements
- April 2015:: dao links added by Emily Andresini.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
